Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #84. Katie Aselton’s Black Rock

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IONCINEMA.com Top 100 Films

#84. Black Rock

Director: Katie Aselton
Writer(s): Mark Duplass
Producers: Adele Romanski
Distributor: Rights Available

The Gist: Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight for survival…(more)

Cast: Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell and Katie Aselton

List Worthy Reasons…: Pitched as a Deliverance with a female cast, we look forward in seeing Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell and helmer/actress Katie Aselton taking a turn for the worse in the woods. And oddly, it’s in the woods where scribe Mark Duplass recently gave one of his better perfs (Lynn Shelton’s indie trend setting secluded wood cabin locale in Your Sister’s Sister). Aselton’s debut The Freebie was flawed, but yet scored points for its honest portrayal of couplehood. Glad she switched genres for her sophomore pic. We hope this is uncomfortable as the mentioned 70’s film.

Release Date/Status?: World premiere showcase in Sundance’s Park City at Midnight section should be followed by a pick-up and better box office than her debut film.

 
Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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